Thread: lake okeechobee crappie guides and lodging

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Take huntinslabs advice on the inshore fishing! It's my favorite and the fish are as good or better than crappie for dinner. If I lived on the gulf I wouldn't crappie fish much at all.

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If you go the inshore route, make sure and ask any guide you talk to if they will have caught bait prior to trip starting. Catching bait can be a 5 minute deal or hour long deal. I would not pay for guide service to watch them throw a cast net and eat up fishing time.

Originally Posted by yobuck

If your going to Naples, check out Chokoloskee, near Everglades city.
That would be the #1 location in Florida for inshore fishing including the Keys.
Some of the best guides in the keys moved to that area years ago.
Actually anywhere from Marco to the south in the ten thousand islands would be great.
To visit that area for a week and not fish there would be a serious mistake.

This. Okeechobee crappie fishing is fun and all but you're staying next to inshore fishermen's paradise.

Red tide will likely not be an issue by March, but the local guides will advise you to their best abilities, just do research and find a well reviewed one.

All time spent on the water fishing is very enjoyable, so wherever and whenever the opportunity allows we should go.
Some of the Florida lakes remind me of the remote lakes in Canada I enjoyed visiting for many years.
Even the water color is the same, just different fish species. There is one difference however, which is that there isn't a fresh water fish that swims, that can even begin to compare to similar sized salt water cousins.
Age and condition is what has turned me on to Crappies, not preference.

We go each March for a week and stay at Roland Martin Marina Resort in Clewiston on Lake O. However we spend a good bit of time fishing for Oscars in the Everglades. You can rent a boat and motor(only need Jon boat with small motor) at Holiday Park and have a ball fishing for Oscars. We start out with crickets and a float but once you find them they will bite about anything you put in the water. Just need to run far enough from the Park to avoid the Tourist Air Boat traffic and drop a cricket in the lily pads and hold on.
Easy to catch more than you want to clean!

Get some decent polarized sunglasses.

Originally Posted by Yelim

Get some decent polarized sunglasses.

Yes indeed and Amber lens with green mirror is best for inshore.

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